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New pricing info
The P2 card pricing has been lowered to $900 for 4Gb AND
$1800 FOR 8 Gb Canadian. The camera is also listing out at $7,500 Canadian.That’s a bit lower than expected for us camerapeeps up north.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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8 Replies
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Dear Graeme,
Where did you find this new pricing info?
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Panasonic. But they’ve changed the info and I don’t have updated info yet. They’ll get it to me asap.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Yes,
On Panasonic’s main site it still says $1,750 for a 4Gb P2 card… Let’s hope it really drops down. I vote for even below $900 like you suggested 🙂
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So that means roughly $6,000 per hour or recording capacity at 720P24 and $12,000 per hour of 1080i60 footage?
Sounds prohibitively expensive unless there is a workflow I dont understand. Surely most people would want to have the option of recording at least an hour or two without going back to the studio to dump the footage off to the computer?
Not trying to be a wet towel here – I really want to understand?
Paul
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Well, the idea is that it saves you $22k in not needing to buy a DVCProHD deck, and a similar cost of not needing a deck in the camera. Basically, you take hard drives with you and dump the cards from the camerea to the drive when they fill up.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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You mean cart a Powerbook and drive on the shoot? Do-able I guess but would certainly be a lot less flexible than grabbing a handful of tapes before heading out. Maybe something like a firestore could capture off the P2 chips while we take a break in shooting for a Cappucino 🙂
I guess a lot of people seem to want to compare this camera to the Sony Z1 since Camera price is similar. But by my calculations its over double before functionality is even close. I gather you think it would be worth the extra?
Paul
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No, just a hard drive. Once you’ve shot, the camera will dump the card to a drive without a computer in-between. The only thing you can’t do is shoot “live” to a drive, without something like a firestore.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Thanks Graeme, now I get it! I have been reading up from Panasonic site on hard-drive device for loading P2. Seems like it is feasible for many people – maybe even us with our long form and long shoots. We are usually away for 5 months and return with 50 hours of footage (or maybe its called “chippage” on a P2 system 😉
For us maybe a $12,000 kit compared to $6,000 for the Z1 but would get rid of HDV problems with resultant bump up in quality.
Thanks for the responses.
Paul
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